Approach Me...If You Dare (Open)

[Lucah Ivaskov]

The courtyard was always a peaceful place to be. It was quiet and cool. The trees were green, more so than they usually were. The sun was hidden behind a fluffy white cloud though it would not rain. It was beautiful out. This was the type of day that would make someone happy. Unless it's Lucah.

Lucah was never happy. Ever. It was as simple as that. Good weather was just good weather to Lucah. It didn't symbolize a great day to come. For him a good day was when no one annoyed the heck out of him...which was almost never. Most of the time, if someone looked at Lucah he was annoyed. Everyone was nothing to him in the country. He missed his home, the one place where at one time or another he had been happy.

Romania had natural beauty. It was one of the most beautiful places Lucah had ever seen. There were hardly any street lights and big cities. The only tall buildings were castles. One of which being his own. The rolling hills, the sky high mountains that disappeared into the clouds. Romania was home, America...was hell.

As Lucah sat under a tall tree and dreamed about Romania he realized...he had to socialize more. The only few friends he had were Zaeric, his music loving friend, and Serenity, the little girl that reminded him so much of his Jezebel. Luc wanted friends, but he was extremely picky. He hated stupid, ill-mannered people and in America, that's all he seemed to find.

[Cole Kessler]

Cole's mind had been restless the past few days. It hadn't been too long ago that he'd been with Taeyeon, but things had changed since a few days ago. She had broken things off with him and he respected that. Though he wanted to be friends with her, it wouldn't matter unless she approached him and spoke to him. He didn't want to get into any conflict and he wasn't any kind of stalker so he would avoid her unless it was iminent.

It wasn't like he'd not enjoyed his singleness the past three days. Was he shallow? Maybe a little, but he couldn't help but go with his instincts. Which were women...., lots and lots of women. It was something he was used to, something he enjoyed. Four girls in the past three nights, three from the club he worked at every other night, and one that was a student. Had he talked to any of them since? Absolutely not. The experience with Taeyeon made him realize that even now, three years after Lerna, he still wasn't ready for a relationship.

He walked into the elevator on the second floor and headed down to the courtyard. He wasn't down there for more than a few minutes before he lit a cigarette. He hadn't had one yet today, and felt he needed it before he went on about his day. Cole looked around at all of the people socializing in the area. Some faces he knew, some he didn't, but he didn't care.

The breeze blowing through the area caught his hair and took hold of it, suspending it in mid-air. He took a drag of his Red and blew the smoke into the wind. It was then that he noticed a young man sitting by his lonesome. He approached, single cigarette in one hand and the pack in the other. He flipped the top open and offered one to the boy, "Have one, it'll take the edge off."

[Lucah Ivaskov]

Lucah had noticed another man walking into the courtyard. He looked homeless. The long hair and dark look, yeah definitely not the type of guy Lucah would hang out with. This guy looked like the stereotype for 'bad boys.' Lucah wasn't interested in being friends with anyone that had excessive tattoos and piercings. Nope, not a good guy for a friend. Lucah knew better than to associate with guys like that...unless he wanted to make his father really really mad.

Lucah sighed and looked down at the notebook next to him. Speaking of father...he needed to write another letter. Of course he didn't want to. He was never in the mood to be a polite son when he really just wanted to be a nasty jerk to his father. It would have made things a lot easier on him. Lucah wanted to write a letter to Jezebel, but he knew it would never make it to her because his father was in control of when they spoke to each other.

Luc sighed internally. He heard footsteps and smelled a wall of smoke getting closer. When he heard the voice to match, he looked up. Had that guy really just asked a sixteen year old if he wanted a cigarette? Crazy country America was. Lucah shook his head, "Um no thank you. I don't smoke."

[Ember Domingo]

The air was warm and the day was going slower than usual. A light summer breeze blew through the open windows of Hammel and ruffled the long red hair of Ember Domingo. She sighed, taking in the smells of freshly cut grass and flowers. It felt so nice outside today. She wasn't forced to be covered by six layers of clothing. Heck, today she even decided she would wear some shorts and a tee shirt. It felt good coming out from under all those clothes, even if all they revealed was light freckled skin.

With another deep breath of summer air she made the executive decision to go out into the court yard. Maybe she would even take the time to practice her powers for a bit before she went to class. If she went to class. She wasn't learning much in English anyway and the teacher wouldn't stop giving her 'the look' in class. She had been written up a few times for talking already and she had been scolded a few other for her drawing habits. All and all she didn't feel like the teacher would miss her anymore than she would.

As she stood looking around the tall trees of the yard she noticed a familiar face. It was one of Zaer's buddys . His name was Luke or something spelled really funny. She couldn't remember. With a shrug she headed over to him noticing a long haired rocker type hanging out by the Luke kid as well. His face didn't ring any bells and the smoke rolling out of his mouth didn't make him seem at all attractive. " Hey, your one of Zaer's friends right?" Ember asked as she came up, averting her gaze from the rocker and looking directly at Lucah.

[Belle Harrington]

Belle made her way to the Courtyard again, she was almost always out here. She tried to come out here as often as she could. It was the ideal spot to do her bird watching, and all the grass and trees allowed her to sit there and pretend to read when she was really quietly and subtly digging into the dirt looking for bugs. She had on her usually get up, a summer dress, which was pink this time, and a white sweater to cover her back. Hanging from her neck were her usual binoculars which she got from her father. And off her shoulder was her brown satchel, which she carried around with her everywhere.

With her iPod ear buds in, and Rimsky Karakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" playing in her ears, Belle arrived at the Courtyard to find it highly populated. What was going on? She wondered to herself, noticing the pretty red-haired girl, and the older looking guy with long black hair. He looked a bit gross, and part of her wanted to wash him. She didn't mean to judge him, it just happened. She mentally punished herself for being ignorant like that. For all she knew he was a nice guy. She also noticed the boy sitting by the tree, it seemed like everyone's attention was on that one boy. Belle didn't know why, and honestly didn't care at the moment. She just wanted to do her own thing, and be left alone.

Quietly and shyly, with her green eyes fixated to the sky, Belle walked up to the group, not paying any attention to the two standing before the boy. She pointed to the back of the tree, which the boy was leaning on and flashed a smile to the boy, "D-Do you mind if I sit there?" She asked shyly, a light pink hue coming to her face. She hated talking to people and rarely did, but she didn't want to be rude and just sit, she knew she had to ask.

[Cole Kessler]

Cole laughed, "Ha, okay then." He said putting his smokes in his pocket. Everything had come at him so fast the passed few days he never bothered to think to ask the boy's age.

Cole began to notice the weird looks everyone was giving him as they began to form a group of people between now four of them. "Uhm, I think I'll recuse myself from this little group. Not that you guys aren't being particularly welcoming or anything."

[Lucah Ivaskov]

Lucah was overwhelmed a bit by the group around him, so when Cole said he was leaving, he didn't object. Then again, he did kind of want to because now he was stuck with two girls. One he knew, vaguely, and the other, well she looked a little on the shy side. He waved once at Cole and then looked at the two girls.

"I suppose you could call me one of Zaeric's 'friends' I mean we aren't that close, but I see him as an acquaintance." Lucah said answering the fiery red head that he had to admit, intimidated him a little. She was a pyro, he knew that, mostly because he had heard about Zaer's minuscule crush on her and the heat from her body was making him slightly uncomfortable. Then he looked at the other girl.

"Of course, it's a free country here, or so I hear. I'm Lucah Ivaskov, for either one of you that don't know or remember my name," He said in his polite and slightly cold tone. It was practically a trade mark for him. Cold, mean and well a little cruel at times.